Xnest and GB keyboard layouts - Xwindows

This is a discussion on Xnest and GB keyboard layouts - Xwindows ; Does anyone know how to pursuade Xnest to use a keyboard layout other than
US english?
The documentation specifically says that it doesn't inherit the keyboard
layout from the enclosing server and uses it's own compiled in defaults.
However it ...

Xnest and GB keyboard layouts

Does anyone know how to pursuade Xnest to use a keyboard layout other than
US english?

The documentation specifically says that it doesn't inherit the keyboard
layout from the enclosing server and uses it's own compiled in defaults.
However it doesn't say how to override these defaults.

Googling turns up some references to "-xkbmap" options but doesn't go into
any detail about what to pass to this option.

-p
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Re: Xnest and GB keyboard layouts

wrote:
>Does anyone know how to pursuade Xnest to use a keyboard layout other than
>US english?
>
>The documentation specifically says that it doesn't inherit the keyboard
>layout from the enclosing server and uses it's own compiled in defaults.
>However it doesn't say how to override these defaults.
>
>Googling turns up some references to "-xkbmap" options but doesn't go into
>any detail about what to pass to this option.
>
>-p

-xkbmap 'xfree86(gb)'

Re: Xnest and GB keyboard layouts

Kip Rugger wrote:
> -xkbmap 'xfree86(gb)'

Thanks muchly.

Despite the fact that it claims not as I get a message saying

"Error opening keymap file xfree86(gb), reverting to defaults"

on the console it does actually work.

-p
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Paul Gotch
CoreSight Tools
Development Systems ARM Limited.

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